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Schedule of events

8:30 amRegistration Opens

9:00 amWelcome Remarks

9:15am - 10:05 amFirst Session

Running concurrently, choose one:
- Programming Banned Books: Speaker Panels, Read-outs, and Positive Engagement (Academic)
- NYU Division of Libraries' Days of Learning (DoL DoL) Program on Book Banning (Academic)
- Censorship: Past and Present (General)
- The Banned Books Trading Card Project (Public)

10:00 am - 10:20 amBreak

10:20 am - 11:10 amSecond Session

Running concurrently, choose one:
- ALA and UABB: Perspectives on Messaging and Resources for Your Library (General)
- ARE YOU READY FOR A CHALLENGE? How a library’s interactive immersion experience helped to train against wave of book bans. (Public)
- Advocacy Matters: Protecting our LGBTQIA+ Picture Book Characters (Schools)
-Banned Book Go to College (Academic)

11:10 am - 11:45 amLunch

Catered by Lola's in Poughkeepsie

11:45 am - 1:00 pmKeynote, Q&A

With featured speaker, Jeff Trexler

Keynote Speaker Jeff Trexler

Jeff Trexler has served since 2020 as Interim Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting free expression and the legal rights of the comics community. He has extensive experience providing strategic advice to librarians, teachers, retailers, publishers, creators, legislators, and even law enforcement on responding to attempts to restrict access to graphic novels. An attorney himself, he is also the first CBLDF director since its founding in 1986 to provide direct legal representation in censorship cases, most notably the successful defense of Gender Queer against an unconstitutional attempt to prohibit the book's sale or distribution in Virginia.   

Prior to joining CBLDF, Jeff served for a decade as Associate Director of the Fashion Law Institute, held a chaired professorship in social entrepreneurship, and was a member of the board of directors of the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. from Duke University, and he is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and in New York.

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  • Dutchess BOCES Conference Center
  • 5 BOCES Road, Poughkeepsie, NY, 12601 US
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